Advanced Certificate in Environmental, Health & Safety Law Seminar

Faculty Biographies

Scott H. Dunhamis a partner with the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers LLP and Chair of its Labor and Employment Law Group. He has specialized in labor relations and employment law, including safety and health, for more than 30 years. Mr. Dunham has been at the forefront of occupational safety and health matters, representing clients in OSHA proceedings at the state and federal levels, ranging from a single citation to actions involving millions of dollars in penalties. He has handled hundreds of incidents involving serious injuries, fatalities and possible criminal prosecutions ranging from Alaska to Florida, and successfully led the defense of one of the few criminal cases actually tried. He received his undergraduate degree with highest honors from Washington State University in 1972, and graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Washington School of Law in 1975, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Law Review. He has served on the Occupational Safety and Health Law Committee of the Labor Law Section of the American Bar Association for more than 25 years and is currently its Employer Co-Chair. He is a contributing author to Occupational Safety and Health Law published by BNA and Associate Editor of the most recent supplement.

Steven M. Lichten is President of ESCI EnviroServices, Inc. an environmental and EH&S consulting firm in Long Beach, California and has over 23 years experience in the environmental compliance and occupational EH&S management field. His background includes multi-media environmental and EH&S compliance and management systems auditing; air, water, hazardous materials and waste permitting and compliance/regulatory plan and program development; ISO14001 implementation, training and auditing; CalARP/RMP development; and compliance and risk/liability reduction training. Mr. Lichten provides general multi-media environmental and EH&S consulting plan development and compliance assistance for a wide range of industries and regulatory agencies. He has worked for several large organizations, including Hughes Aircraft, McLaren-Hart Environmental Engineering and Hunt-Wesson Inc. He is an assistant professor for Health Science at California State University, Northridge and is an instructor at the UC Irvine and Cal State Fullerton and Long Beach extension programs. Mr. Lichten has authored/presented over 150 technical papers and presentations on a variety of environmental topics. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Environmental and Occupational Health Science from California State University, Northridge.

Ethan R. Ware is a Shareholder in the McNair Law Firm, P.A. His practice is limited to representation of industry and business in environmental and health and safety legal matters. He has appeared on behalf of business in: negotiations relating to environmental permits, defense of environmental and OSHA enforcement actions and toxic tort lawsuits, the University of Virginia where he was on the editorial board of the Journal of Law and Politics. He was appointed to the and criminal and civil environmental actions. Mr. Ware's practice also involves review of environmental issues in transactions and environmental and health and safety training and auditing programs. He is a popular instructor, and has authored articles on timely environmental issues, and is best known for his accomplishments in Air, Hazardous Waste, and Water Law. He received his J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law.